Download or read book Archaic Chinese Bronzes of the Shang Chou and Han Periods in the Collections of Mr Parish Watson Classic Reprint written by Berthold Laufer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Archaic Chinese Bronzes of the Shang, Chou and Han Periods in the Collections of Mr. Parish-Watson The great stimulus to the development of early art was ancestor wor ship with all of the virtues resulting from it, including the unceasing care for the departed, who were constantly alive and awake in the minds of the people. This deep-rooted reverence for the dead culminated in a minutely developed ritualistic cult which required vases for meat, grain, and wine offerings, and accordingly inspired the bronze-founders to supreme efforts. Chinese archaeology is still in its incipient stages, and, as a matter of fact, we know little about the earliest bronzes. The scholars of China were chiefly interested in their inscriptions, and from the style and technique of the characters have drawn conclusions as to the chronological setting, and classified the material according to historical periods. The results, in gen eral, are sound and acceptable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.